Robert Frost Quotes

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My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

Robert Frost
All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
That gathers on the pane in empty rooms.

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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

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As for his evil tidings,
Belshazzar's overthrow,
Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
What soon enough he would know?

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Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?

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A theory if you hold it hard enough And long enough gets rated as a creed..

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Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start.

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How are we to write
The Russian novel in America
As long as life goes so unterribly?

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Even while we talk some chemist at Columbia Is stealthily contriving wool from jute...

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When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

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It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom
Of having children after having had them,
So there is nothing we can do about it
But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

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And how much longer a story has science Before she must put out the light on the children And tell them the rest of the story is dreaming?

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There is no love.
There's only love of men and women, love
Of children, love of friends, of men, of God:
Divine love, human love, parental love,
Roughly discriminated for the rough.

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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space. Its contemplation makes us out as small As a brief epidemic of microbes.

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A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.

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The truth is the river flows into the canyon
Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us,
As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

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You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad.

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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

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The Moon for all her light and grace
Has never learned to know her place.

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One of the lies would make it out that nothing
Ever presents itself before us twice.
Where would we be at last if that were so?
Our very life depends on everything's
Recurring till we answer from within.

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No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found....

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A man has got to keep his extrication.
The important thing is not to get bogged down
In what he has to do to earn a living....

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But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

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"But Cygnus isn't in the Zodiac," Dick longed to say, but wasn't sure enough Of his astronomy...

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I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow.

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Bounds should be set
To ingenuity for being so cruel
In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

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There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man....

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Man acts more like the poor bear in a cage That all day fights a nervous inward rage. The toenail click at the shuffle of his feet, The telescope at one end of his beat, And at the other end the microscope, Two instruments of nearly equal hope.

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